Please.

Still kicking

It's been awhile since my last post. Sorry about that. Things have been crazy around here. I'm basically a single mom during the week. And by the time I put my Goobster to bed, I can barely do more than stare blankly at the tv. I'm always so tired. Ugh. But we've survived for 3 weeks. We have 12 more to go.

This next week will be great. I'm on spring break from work. So I've been here in San Antonio with J since Friday. Then on Wednesday, I'll head to Houston and spend the rest of the week with my parents. J will fly to Houston to spend the weekend with me and then drive home with me. That evening he'll fly back up to San Antonio, ready to start the work week. Doesn't that sound complicated? But it works for us.

I hope to be able to devote more time to posting as I get more used to being on my own. I have some great pictures to share. My baby is growing so fast!! Can you believe we're only about 7 weeks from his birthday? Eek!

On another note, remember my post about going off the pills and to try charting to avoid pregnancy. Well, I'm very happy to report that our first month was highly successful. I didn't get knocked up! Woo hoo!



I have something else to say. It's highly embarassing, but I need to get it off my chest. I've already told J but he doesn't grasp the seriousness of the situation. So here goes, don't judge me too harshly. ....... I'm a Twilight fanatic. It's bad. Real, real bad. I've already read the books at least 4 times. I try to put them down and leave them alone. But I always keep getting dragged back into them. I was doing real well handling my addiction, until last Monday. At lunch, one of my coworkers brought up how they were filming the next movie. Well, that night I just had to go back and look through a few parts of the second book. I then couldn't put it down. I had to reread all the rest of them. Ugh. I have a problem. I think that I'm going to leave them all here in San Antonio that way I can't get to them.

First week-done!

So this past week was J's first week at his new job and back at his parents'. It was also my first week home alone with just Goob.

It went well. I did have a mini breakdown on Sunday evening, but I got through it. The rest of the week flew by. Goob and I really have our routine down pat in the afternoons. So that really helps. He's usually in bed by 8 and I'll have the rest of the evening to myself.

This week was a short week for us due to a local holiday. I got off of work yesterday at 12 and had today off. So Goob and I drove up to my ILs for the weekend. J's still at work now, but he'll be off in about an hour so we'll have all weekend to be together.

J's new employer is helping us sell our house and will help us buy a new house which is great. Within 20 minutes of J talking to the moving coordinators, we had two local real estate agent calling us to set up appointments.

Things are moving fast!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our Valentine's Day is winding down. It was very simple and low key and spent with my two boys. We spent the morning running errands and then we went to the movies. We saw Confessions of a Shopaholic. It was adorable. The Goob came with us and was behaving beautifully until the last 15/20 minutes and then J had to walk him around in the hallway. Now we've spent the afternoon at home. Goob is fixing to head to bed and J and I are going to enjoy a steak dinner. We've refused to go out since we're sure lines will be ridiculously long. And we also picked up some chocolate covered strawberries for dessert. Yum.

Happy Valentine's Day!

February 23rd

J will start work on Monday, February 23rd...in San Antonio. That's about 5 hours away. And since I'm under contract until June 5th. We'll be apart. For 15 weeks.

I'm trying to not stress about this, but it's hard, especially since J is so excited to start his new job.

Something new

Well, I'm officially off of my birth control pills. But I don't want to get pregnant! I'm off of them because they just are not fun for my body. I'm moody, irritable, always hungry, etc, etc.

So I did some research, asked for some advice from some JM pals. I bought Taking Charge of Your Fertility and devoured it. It's an awesome book. So informative.

J and I have decided to give Natural Family Planning a try. I'll follow the Fertility Awareness Method from TCOYF. This is the perfect time for us to start. J is fixing to move in with this parents to start a new job and we'll only see each other on weekends. This will give me plenty of time to observe and chart.

Of course, we both know that we're taking a risk here. But we've decided that if I do end up getting pregnant (which I don't want to right now), it wouldn't be the end of the world. We'd welcome another baby, especially if he/she's as cute as Goob.

Wish us luck.

Ocho

Eight years ago, J and I started dating. We were both freshmen in college. Ahhhh...memories.

Here we are. We've been married for about a year and a half and we have the cutest baby ever.

What more could we want?

J got a job!

J was offered a job on Friday. Yay! But, it's going to bring a lot of changes. It's a lot to process for all of us. More on those changes later.

Waving

Tonight J went to get us some dinner. I fed Goob dinner and then we played on the floor. J returned. Goob got all excited and smiled at him and then raised his hand in the air, like he was waving. It was cute....unless he was doing the Nazi salute and in that case, not so cute. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

And then as I was walking in the bathroom to take him from J after his bath, he did it again!

Weekly Pics: Week 37-38

Week 38: January 20th

Week 37: January 13th (Not the best picture, but it's all I got. I was documenting his first time to eat real bananas. We get excited about the silliest things around here.)

Boys will be boys at any age.

A few minutes ago, I was sitting on the floor. My almost 9 month old crawled over to me, climbed into my lap, and put his head on my chest. It was awesome. I finally felt that he truely and deeply knew that I was his mama and that I would do anything for him. And then he burped. And then laughed at his burp. Boys!

Not Me Mondays!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Here are the things that I didn't do this past Saturday.

I didn't wake up at 7 am on Saturday morning when I have to be at work at 8 am and that work is certainly not 30 miles away. I certainly wasn't so late that I just threw my hair in a ponytail and threw on the clothes that I wore the previously night.

I definitely didn't stop at McDonald's on Saturday morning when I wasn't late to grab a delicious sausage biscuit.

I was not gullible and I didn't fall for L's joke that C wasn't at work yet when she was supposed to be there at 7 am and it was 8am. I certainly didn't pull over and have a freak out and call another friend to call C's mom and try to figure out where she was. I defintely shouldn't have known better to believe a thing that L says.

I didn't whine and groan all morning cause I was having to work on a Saturday.

I didn't get snippy with an older teacher when she got snippy with me. And I certainly didn't tell her to "get over it" when she wanted to argue with me. That was not me, my parents certainly raised me better.

I didn't go home and collapse on the couch for the rest of the afternoon. And I didn't jump for joy when Goob took a long nap while J went to a job interview.

I didn't force my husband to drive us 50 miles to get to a nearest Babies R Us cause they were having a sell on diapers. (Buy 2 value boxes, get a free $15 gift card. I promise you it was a great deal!)

I didn't have a melt down at BRU when I couldn't find my needed size. (A size 3, in case anyone wants to send me diapers.) And I did't make my hubby go and ask the associate to check in the back.

I didn't convince my husband to take me out to dinner when I just spent almost $100 at BRU. And I certainly didn't have dessert. Yum! Or not yum!

(Wow. Saturday really wasn't my day!)

So many changes so fast

To make a long story short, since the last time I posted, my husband lost his job and our world flip flopped. He got laid off last Friday (1/9).

After spending a weekend in shock, he got to work looking for another job. He's got great experience, but he's been considering a change...out of the world of retail. Besides, the retail world is so scary lately with all the big box stores closing (Bye, Circuit City!). So he's exploring other options. Right now, he's got 5 big prospects. 3 are retailers. 2 are not. The 2 that are not are located in San Antonio, about 3 hours away.

Right now he's in San Antonio staying at his parent's house because he has an interview tomorrow. This was a job recommended to us by my grandfather. It's a management training position. There is a lot of growth in this company.

I think we both really want him to get one of these San Antonio jobs (the other he applied for last week and is waiting to see what they say). We've been living down here in south Texas for 4 years. We've always talked about moving and now it really looks like the opportunity might be presented to us.

Him getting the job is going to be a major change for us. He'll mostly likely have to start ASAP. We've discussed that he'll probably move to San Antonio and live with his parents while I stay here and finish up my year of teaching and put the house on the market. Then we've talked about not looking for another house for awhile. We'd like to live with his parents (they have a HUGE house) for about a year and save enough to pay off some of our debts and for a down payment for another house.

Lots to think about. Lots of new possibilites. If you can, please send us some positive thoughts for DH's job interview tomorrow and for our fresh start.

Weekly Pic: Week 36

Week 36: January 6th

Now and Then

May 2008

January 2009

Another resolution

I'm not going to spend time worrying about things that are not in my control. In Randy Pausch's words, I'm gonna be a Tigger, not an Eeyore.

Bad night last night

Goob went to bed normally. Ate dinner, played, had a bath, played, ate a bottle, went to bed. Nothing out of the ordinary.

J and I had some quality, playing Wii and reading. It was a nice night. We went to bed around midnight.

At 3ish, I hear it. The whining and crying on the monitor. At first, I didn't think anything of it. Sometimes he just cries in his sleep. But he kept at it. After a few minutes of whining/crying, I elbowed J. He went to get the Goob, I went to get a bottle. I thought he'd take a few drinks and fall back asleep. We put him in bed with us and watched tv as he ate his bottle.

He finished the bottle so J put him back to bed. J didn't even get out of the room when he started crying again. We put him back in bed with us. He got comfy and fell asleep. J noticed that he was asleep and tried to carry him back to his crib. This time he lasted 10 minutes and J and I were back asleep. Then he started crying again.

We haven't experienced anything like this since Goob was a newborn. It was awful.

We gave him another bottle. He just played with it. And then he decided that he wanted to play with us. He was smiling and giggling and trying to be a ham. We tried not to laugh since we were beyond tired, but you know how it goes.

Finally, we just decided to leave him in bed with us. Around 6 oclock, he finally went fell asleep until 9 am.

I think today he's been recovering from his lack of sleep. He took a nap from 11 to 12:15 and now he's been sleeping since 2:15.

Wish us luck that tonight is a better night.

Weekly Pics: Weeks 32-35

Week 35: December 30th


Week 34: December 23rd


Week 33: December 16th


Week 32: December 9th

New Year's Resolution

I've made several resolutions. I'm really going to work towards sticking to them.

For my family:
I'd like us to go to church more often. We're going to try to go once a month, and if that works out, we'll increase it.

For my household:
I'm going to do 1 load of laundry per day. I hate having to do massive loads on the weekends. It ruins my whole day. So one per day. I think I can handle that. And I'm going to try to follow the Fly Lady more than I have been.

For our finances:
I'm going to try and work on paying down our debts. I'd like to be able to pay off several credit cards.

For my blog:
I'm very hot and cold. I'll blog a lot one week and then not at all for 3 weeks. I'm going to try to post at least 3 times a week.

For myself:
I'm going to try and be more health conscious. I'll think twice about what's going into my body and how much activity I'm getting. I'm going to start a food log and document everything.

Hello 2009!

Happy New Year!

What an amazing year 2008 has been. Who knows what 2009 has in store for us?

(A resolution post coming soon.)